Rare set of three promotional cassette tapes for Prince’s ‘Man‘O’War (Remix) NPG Records Sampler,’ an unreleased sampler cassette planned for distribution by NPG Records in 2000 in conjunction with Prince’s 23rd album, Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic. The spine of each tape is marked: “Promotional Copy, Not 4 Sale.” The artwork included the phrase ‘Nine Deep Trax,’ and the cassette is often referred to as such. It included edits of several unreleased tracks by various NPG Records artists, many of which remain unreleased. Unlike many samplers, the edits contained the beginning and end of most tracks, with the edits taking place in the core of the song, rather than a simple fade-out at the end. In overall fine condition, with two tapes sealed in their original wrapper.
The track listing is as follows:
Man‘O’War (Remix) - Prince
Peace (Excerpt) - The NPG
2045: Radical Man - The NPG
Hit U In The Socket (Excerpt) - Rosie Gaines
Trouble (Never Give Up) (Excerpt) - Rosie Gaines
Seventeen (Excerpt) - Madhouse
Eighteen (Excerpt) - Madhouse
Come 2 My House (Excerpt) - Chaka Khan
Do U Wanna Get Funky? (Excerpt) - Larry Graham
From the personal collection of a former Paisley Park employee.
